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Originally Posted by Blick
The picture is meant to be controversial. It's a magazine cover, not an accurate portrayal of breastfeeding in their home.
The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding until two years of age and beyond.
If the mother and child are still comfortable with it, then what's the problem? You recognized the benefits of it.
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You realize that's aimed at nations with fewer resources, right?
And specifically, they say:
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Over the past decades, evidence for the health advantages of breastfeeding and recommendations for practice have continued to increase. WHO can now say with full confidence that breastfeeding reduces child mortality and has health benefits that extend into adulthood. On a population basis, exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life is the recommended way of feeding infants, followed by continued breastfeeding with appropriate complementary foods for up to two years or beyond.
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http://www.who.int/maternal_child_ad.../en/index.html
Sorry. If your kid is talking and dressing himself, he doesn't need the tit any more.
(He also doesn't need that ****ing bag of chips and a 2-liter of Pepsi.)